The British Encyclopedia, Or Dictionary of Arts and Sciences: Comprising an Accurate and Popular View of the Present Improved State of Human Knowledge : Illustrated with Upwards of 150 Elegant Engravings. N - R. 5Longman, 1809 - 680 pages |
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... distilled without any essential alteration . Exposed to the air it absorbs moisture . If two parts be suddenly ... distilling the mixture : or by mixing nitre with twice its weight of dry powdered clay , and distilling in a rever ...
... distilled without any essential alteration . Exposed to the air it absorbs moisture . If two parts be suddenly ... distilling the mixture : or by mixing nitre with twice its weight of dry powdered clay , and distilling in a rever ...
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... distilled with three - fourths its weight of nitric acid ; or by saturating the mother waters of nitre with soda instead of potash . This salt has been considered as useless ; but professor Proust says , that five parts of it , with one ...
... distilled with three - fourths its weight of nitric acid ; or by saturating the mother waters of nitre with soda instead of potash . This salt has been considered as useless ; but professor Proust says , that five parts of it , with one ...
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... distillation ; and for this purpose they are macerated for some hours in water . They are then intro- duced into a still with the water ; a mode . rate heat is applied and continued till the fluid boil , when a great quantity of vapour ...
... distillation ; and for this purpose they are macerated for some hours in water . They are then intro- duced into a still with the water ; a mode . rate heat is applied and continued till the fluid boil , when a great quantity of vapour ...
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... distillation , with a greater de- gree of heat than that of boiling water , or by the application of a strong heat to sub ... distilled , the oil is restored to a state of purity , and the car- bonaceous matter which had been separated ...
... distillation , with a greater de- gree of heat than that of boiling water , or by the application of a strong heat to sub ... distilled , the oil is restored to a state of purity , and the car- bonaceous matter which had been separated ...
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... distilled from it yeilds no oil ; if therefore there is any oil it must be in very small quantities and soluble in water . The active principle of the onion acts upon the tin of the alembic in which experiments have been made . ONISCUS ...
... distilled from it yeilds no oil ; if therefore there is any oil it must be in very small quantities and soluble in water . The active principle of the onion acts upon the tin of the alembic in which experiments have been made . ONISCUS ...
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